“To wound the heart is to create it.”

“The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.”

Dean Koontz book One Door Away from Heaven

“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

“Still falls the Rain —
Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side:
He bears in His Heart all wounds, — those of the light that died,
The last faint spark
In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark…”

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

Mineko Iwasaki (1949) Japanese Geisha

“Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again.”

Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“I — my heart — a gaping heart, enthroned in a radiance of blood. It is mine, it is ours. The heart — that wound which we have. I have compassion on myself.”

Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist

“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“In every community, there is work to be done.
In every nation, there are wounds to heal.
In every heart, there is the power to do it.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer